backslapper

Example Sentences

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When I’m feeling sociable, I take on his personality — a backslapper, a schmoozer, a happy-go-lucky guy.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

Longtime E.P.A. employees described Mr. Perrotta as a backslapper and a fast-talker who enjoys talking about his mob-busting days and has given the impression that he chafed under the leadership of others.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2018

“I wasn’t a backslapper or a bon vivant,” Mr. Byrne was quoted as saying in a 2014 biography by Donald Linky.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2018

He’s a great backslapper, ever cordial, good at remembering names, never missing an opportunity to tell voters how much he loves them and only lives to serve them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2016

A former speaker of the Knesset—like Netanyahu, he is a member of the Likud—he was a clubhouse pol, a backslapper, a vote trader.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014